Areas of expertise
- Technology consulting
- Extensive experience within the email industry
- Business and process innovation
- Product development
- Business evangelism
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Skills Highlights
Technical Skills
- Platforms
- Linux (Gentoo, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu. More than 10 years of experience)
- Mac OS X (Mac users since 2005)
- Unix (FreeBSD, OpenBSD. 5 years of experience)
- Windows (Windows 3.11 through Vista)
- Application Experience (using/deploying)
- CRM (Salesforce, SugarCRM)
- CMS (Joomla!, Mambo, PostNuke, WordPress)
- Flowchart Design (OmniGraffle)
- Graphical Design (Photoshop, Illustrator, The Gimp)
- Office Suites (Apple iWork, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice)
- Ticket Management Systems (Trac)
- Web Analytics (Google Analytics, Awstats)
- Wikis (Mediawiki, Trac, MoinMoin)
- Programming / Languages
- SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
- HTML/CSS
- Regular Expressions
- Bash Scripting
- Server Expertise
- Webservers (Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx)
- Mailservers (Most email servers/platform on the market but Exchange and Lotus Notes)
- Fileservers (Samba, NFS)
- Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Virtualization (VMware)
Languages
- Fluent in English and Swedish. Conversational in Danish and Norwegian.
Experience
2006 – Present, Co-founder / Managing Director
WireLoad, LLC, Mountain View, CA
- Managing company strategies and goals.
- Lead company to become profitable.
- Communicating with users and processing feedback.
- Lead the development of the world’s leading consumer and SMB email migration tool, YippieMove.
- Initiated the development of Email Service Guide, an innovative, data-drive, email hosting guide endorsed by major providers such as Rackspace and 01.com.
- Collaborating with developers to schedule launches of new features.
- Managing company’s heavily virtualized server architecture.
2006 – 2008, Business Development
BioLens Definition Lenses AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Managed the shift from traditional B2B supplier to a successful eCommerce supplier with lower overhead.
- Advised company in the process of entering the global market, including linguistic, legal and cultural advising.
- Managed communication with global suppliers.
- Improved quality of marketing to compete with larger competitors.
- Introduced CRM solution to improve sales operation and reduce overhead.
2000 – 2007, Sales Representative / IT-Manager
Finnvedens Optik AB, Värnamo, Sweden
- With my customer-first attitude, I managed to doubled the sales of sunglasses compared to prior years.
- Built cost-efficient IT infrastructure.
- Finnvedens Optik AB is today one of Europe’s most technologically developed optometry stores.
2002 – 2003, Sergeant
Royal Swedish Navy, Karlskrona, Sweden
- Repaired and maintained critical hardware and software, such as radar, telecommunication and warfare-systems.
- Represented vessel in division meetings.
Education
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Bachelor of Science in Commerce
Major: Business Management
Certificate: Entrepreneurship
Awards
- Winner, Santa Clara University’s Business Plan competition 2008
- Finalist, Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s Venture Challenge 2008
